Tag: AI

The study highlighted that evaluating AI solely by carbon emissions overlooks devastating localized impacts on water and land systems.

To counter Big Tech’s narrative of AI inevitability, movements are beginning to resist on many fronts where this dangerous tech is being deployed.

New legislation would create a sovereign wealth fund funded through equity transfers from major artificial intelligence firms, aiming to distribute AI-generated wealth beyond Silicon Valley investors.

One city’s success in stopping a data center grew into a regional movement that’s notching wins across the San Gabriel Valley.

Automation has shaped governments for decades, but new AI-driven systems are taking on functions from warfare to welfare. Promising speed and efficiency, their growing influence over decision-making complicates political accountability and risks autonomous governance being beyond human control.

With Meta’s new Manhattan-sized project slated for the state, lawmakers are pushing new restrictions on artificial intelligence even as the Trump administration threatens to withhold broadband funding in response.

The researchers found a significant gap when these tools are used to address real-world patient symptoms.

There is a dramatic slowdown in the previously accelerating pace of coal plant retirements because utility companies are responding to a rise in electricity demand from data centers and other sources. 

As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, an activist said, “We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman relatives.”

Many countries still go to war believing that God is on their side. Just as dangerous are those that believe that they will win because technology is on their side.